Don’t Look for Khmer Films at the Oscars?

Sweet Cucumber isn’t a fan of Khmer film.

They're hugely popular, and given their daily titles, I am wondering if Khmers really are blood-craving people (see also their sickening curiosity for street accidents). Although I'm convinced that your average Khmer is a good and warm-hearted person, their taste in movies leaves a lot to be desired. It's either some extremely tacky love story (but those seem to be reserved for television nowadays), or it's about cruel and sadistic ghost & torture stories. Most screenplays are very primitive, and only seem to aim for the lower instincts of mankind: rape, torture, murder, weird rituals, mass killings, horror, alien abductions, sex (the hidden kind), etcetera...

But he gives us a feel for the genre with a series of movie billboards and the sound of promotional soundtracks blaring from the theaters.